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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development
by
nullius
on 04/04/2021, 16:52:13 UTC
Today in the Yacoin Horror Show:

Quote from: @RealBeave162🧟
Jesus... GET A LIFE. You won't go away will you. Worthless!

It's called consensus buddy. I suggest you learn what that means? No one cares what you think. NO ONE.

Forking hell.  RealBeave162🧟 does not know what “consensus” means, in the context of Byzantine fault-tolerant distributed systems architecture.  I recently wrote a post about exactly this issue, and have been planning a whole thread about it.

There is hereby a failure of human language usage:  The word “consensus” is overloaded.

In Bitcoin, the word “consensus” has the very specific technical meaning.  It does not refer to an agreement amongst humans, as in colloquial usage.  Rather, it denotes the resolution of a synchronized state in a distributed system.

Compare and contrast other distributed consensus protocols such as Paxos (the Lamport consensus protocol, not the blockchain company).

[...more explanation; go read...]

Someone who is ignorant of the precise meaning of the word “consensus” in the context of distributed consensus protocols should not be involved in the development of cryptocurrencies.

perhaps try “Yacoin Optimized”.  (I first thought to suggest “Yacoin Unbroken” or “Yacoin Less-Stupid”, but that would just be cruel.)

"Yacoin Unbroken" sounds like a script that someone should pitch to Stallone for his next movie TBH.

That’s the spirit, Joe_Bauers_👻!  No pain!  NO PAIN!  (Well—maybe a little a lot of pain.)  I infer that this must be your experience as a Yacoiner:


If it is any comfort to you:  Yacoin has inspired me!  As an expert in pessimization, I want to create a coin that is even worse:  Slower, more wasteful of resources, and not merely impractical, but humanly impossible to use.  I have some great ideas for this.  If you want to be a bagholder for a coin even worse than Yacoin, then I will be happy to prey on your financial masochism!  Seriously, I am assembling a team of world-class pessimization experts for this.